Topic: FriendFeed Inc.

Facebook + FriendFeed = Real Time Search??

While the FriendFeed acquisition appears to be a Shot at Twitter, Google is in Facebook's crosshairsREAD»

Twitter on Steroids

Finally! A way to check on what your friends are doing every minute of every day on every social network. That’s FriendFeed. All together now: “We’re not currently monetizing the site.”READ»

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Go Ahead, Add 'News Producer' To Your Resume

So I'm sifting through my RSS feeds on Google Reader, organizing each element just right, and filtering out the junk I don't want to read about when it hits me... I'm producing my own news! Believe it or not, social media has ...READ»

1.0, 2.0. Next version will be named 'Big Brother'

What comes after Web2.0? Everything - and not like you think!READ»

Conference Hopping

Is it just me or are there conferences going on EVERYWHERE? There's OMMA, Web 2.0 NY and IZEAFest this month and ESM and MarketingProfs next month to name a few. I know I'm speaking at the Association for Women in ...READ»

The Most Innovative Companies in Web 2.0

You read our Fast Company 50. Now learn about the companies within specific industries that are doing both creative and ground-breaking work. Here we present the top ten in Web 2.0.READ»

Journalism's Evolution In An Era Of Social Media

Journalism is at a crossroads, with two distinct groups voicing their opinions. On one side, many journalists don’t buy the trend toward social media and have their heads firmly entrenched in the sand. They believe in their ...READ»

WorkFast.TV: How Best Buy Engages Employees to Improve Productivity

Today on WorkFast.TV: Best Buy's Michele Azar (VP Emerging Customer Channels) and Gary Koelling - co-founder of the 22,000-employee behind-firewall social network BlueShirt Nation talk about how employees are helping each other as ...READ»

WorkFast.TV: The 10 Secrets of Highly Productive People

Today's show, The 10 Secrets of Highly Productive People, features Matt Rissell, CEO of TSheets, a Boise-based provider of online timeclocks used by employees and consultants. On his blog, he writes about how he set out to interview ...READ»

Google and Future of Information and Copyright

What is copyright worth? As stories of the decline in sales of newspapers continue to be reported, as well as the possible shift in newspapers going completely digital, is it really worth these companies to go after such seemingly insignificant details?READ»

WorkFast.TV, A Live Streaming Video Show Launches on FastCompany.TV Today

WorkFast.TV, a live Internet-distributed video show focused on how Internet technologies are changing the way we work, will air live on FastCompany.TV today. Tech bloggers Robert Scoble and Shel Israel will co-host the show that ...READ»

Avoiding the Fail Whale

Building a server environment that’s scalable and reliable can be tough, especially when your traffic goes "nuts" virtually overnight. Fast Company Live presents a special one-hour live webinar, moderated by Robert Scoble and featuring a panel of tech leaders from companies big to small who are facing these very issues.READ»

• Watch It Live Right Now
• 10 Web 2.0 Failures
• 10 Web 2.0 Ideas That Failed

A Better Contender in the Quest for Aggregation: Pip.io

Ever since social media data started growing like bathroom flora, there have been aggregation tools to make managing your stuff easier. Some are limited in scope; FriendFeed, for example, pulls together just a few services, but does ...READ»

How Does Customer Support for Free Services Work?

Twitter, Digg, Facebook, Google, FriendFeed - there is no scarcity of networks and services that are free to users who enjoy a connection to the World Wide Web today. What happens when one of these services we have come to rely on experiences a problem? How does customer support for free services work? READ»

WorkFast.TV: Interview with "Mr. Office 2.0" Live on FastCompany.TV

Technology bloggers Robert Scoble and Shel Israel interview Ismael Ghalimi, founder-producer of the Office 2.0 conference, founder-CEO of Intalio, co-founder of Mondolabs the experimental Office 2.0 startup incubator, on WorkFast.TV ...READ»

WorkFast.TV: Timothy Ferriss, author of The 4-Hour Workweek

This week WorkFast.TV comes a day early to accommodate July 4, Independence Day. The guest today, Timothy Ferriss, is a great advocate of getting out of the office and getting on with life. To watch the show live and join the ...READ»

Your Social Media Mission - PR It Forward

From the amount of response to PitchEngine, it's apparent that the majority of social media adoption is coming from PR professionals, not journalists. While there are some early adopters like Wired Journalists and others in the ...READ»

Posterous Makes iPhone Photoblogging Ingenious

There are plenty of ways to blog a cat, and nearly all the tools out there work fine. But make no mistake: there's a blogging arms race going on.Arguably the three most advanced contenders--slick, free Web 2.0 tools with ...READ»

How Social Media PR Wins Journalists

PitchEngine member Kevin Dugan, shared this article from the New York Times in his friendfeed room, The Bad Pitch Blog and it got me thinking - It's time public relations got back basics, with this new fangled social media. The ...READ»

Nova Spivack's Twine Is Red-Hot

Nova Spivack's red-hot site, Twine, uses artificial intelligence to find and store Web info.READ»

Google Profiles Competes in Social Listing Space

According to John Battelle, it's a really big deal. Others are comparing it to a LinkedIn or Facebook killer. Whatever you call it, Google Profiles are here to stay and they can give you a lot more splash for your personal brand. ...READ»

Facebook Lite Just Isn't Twitter

Facebook gained pop stardom by allowing college students to create their own little PR campaign: the pictures they wanted seen, the books and films they wanted to boast they loved. It was an orderly, sanitized place where users could ...READ»

Spielberg, Lonelygirl15 and the Entertaining of PR

If I could hire any two people in the world to join my public relations consultancy who would it be?    The answer today sure is different than a mere 18 months ago.  I would have most likely rattled off the name of a ...READ»

Did Chrome OS Go Public to Beat Microsoft's News? Nope

Google's Chrome OS is either neat or irrelevant, depending on how you think--but the timing is undeniably interesting. It's more than a year away, so why'd Google go to press now? One theory is to beat Microsoft. This idea's being ...READ»

The Identity Privacy Control Panel of the Future

This afternoon I was reading an editorial piece by Adam Cohen in the New York Times. Adam makes a great point about the need for granular privacy settings, “Users should be asked if they want information to be viewable by ...READ»